3分鐘學英語 [269]:英文"想家"怎么說?可別說成think home喲

情景對話：

It is also lonely among men.

I can carry you further than any ship could take you. I can help you someday,if you grow too home-sick for your own planet.

知識點筆記：

Home-sick
想家，思鄉(xiāng)

 

 

【例句一】
I'm home-sick.
我想家了。

【例句二】
A: What's wrong?
你怎么了?
B: Nothing, I'm just a little home-sick. I miss my mom's cooking is all.
沒事，我就是有點想家。我想我媽媽做的飯了。

例句中有一個口語非正式表達：

...is all.
某件事情就是我想說的

比如我們可以說：
You're funny is all.
你就是很奇怪嘛。

Grow home-sick
越來越想家/開始想家

【例句一】
I've been growing home-sick lately. I haven't been back home in over 2 years.
我最近越來越想家了。我已經2年多沒回家了。

【例句二】
If you grow home-sick, just call your family.
如果你開始想家了，就給你家里人打電話唄。

繼續(xù)劇情：

That was double scary, huh?
真是雙倍的嚇人啊。

Triple and quadruple.
三倍和四倍的。

Triple
三倍

它既可以作為形容詞，也可以作為動詞，比如：

【例句一】
I'll give you triple amount of the money.
我會給你三倍的價錢。

【例句二】
I can help you triple your test score if you study with me.
如果你跟我一起學習，我能讓你的考試分數(shù)乘三。

【例句三】
Al tripled his initial offer to buy my bike. I think I'm gonna take it.
Al給出了他初始價格的三倍來買我的自行車，我想我要接受這個價格了。

Quadruple
四倍

它也有動詞和形容詞的表達。

【例句一】
Why are we paying quadruple the price for an inferior product?
我們?yōu)槭裁匆獮橐粋€爛產品付4倍的錢?

【例句二】
I got rid of a lot of furniture in my apartment and quadrupled the space.
我公寓里的很多家具都被我扔了，空間擴大了四倍。

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